The Darkest Hour...

Earth Hour was this past Saturday as we all probably know by now...

here are some awesome (before and after) pics of cities around the world that took a part of the global event.. and turned off the lights for an hour..

The Colosseum ..



Hong Kong Financial District



Eiffel Tower




Sydney Opera House





Check out more Pics collected at The Big Picture

Awesome!

The year in Pictures....

2008 as you might imagine was a pretty eventful year.. continuing wars... markets crashing.. the election of a new president.. the olympics... and things such as..

The Big Picture is a photo blog for The Boston Globe website.. who is managed by Alan Taylor. Their intention is to highlight high quality images that focus on current events..

Here are some of my favorite images of The Big Picture-- year in review






View all the images for 2008 in Photographs


(all images through the big picture)